[OpenGLAM] Fwd: Ransom Center Initiative Provides Free Access to More Than 22, 000 Images of Collection Materials

Mon Jun 29 17:37:03 UTC 2015

Good news on another open content release - we will add them to our Open
Collections overview on http://openglam.org/open-collections/ as well!

Best regards, Lieke Ploeger

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[image: The University of Texas at Austin - What Starts Here Changes The
World]

Ransom Center Initiative Provides Free Access to More Than 22,000 Images of
Collection Materials

June 29, 2015

AUSTIN, Texas — To lower barriers to use of its collections, the Harry
Ransom Center <http://www.hrc.utexas.edu>, a humanities research library
and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has adopted an open access
policy, removing the requirement for permission and use fees for a
significant portion of its online collections believed to be in the public
domain.

In conjunction with the release of the policy, the Ransom Center
launches Project
REVEAL <http://hrc.utexas.edu/reveal> (Read and View English and American
Literature), a year-long initiative to digitize and make available 25 of
its manuscript collections of some of the best-known names from American
and British literature of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Among the
authors represented in Project REVEAL are Joseph Conrad
<http://hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15878coll54#nav_top>,
Hart Crane
<http://hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15878coll32#nav_top>,
Thomas Hardy
<http://hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15878coll55#nav_top>,
Vachel Lindsay
<http://hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15878coll52#nav_top>,
Jack London
<http://hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15878coll31#nav_top>,
Katherine Mansfield
<http://hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15878coll47#nav_top>,
Robert Louis Stevenson
<http://hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15878coll48#nav_top>
and Sara Teasdale
<http://hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15878coll43#nav_top>
.

The Project REVEAL initiative generated more than 22,000 high-resolution
images, available for use by anyone for any purpose without restriction or
fees. The Ransom Center does, however, ask for attribution alongside the
use of its images.

“I am delighted that the Ransom Center has joined other world-class
institutions such as Harvard University, Yale University and Cornell
University in opening up material,” said Peter B. Hirtle, fellow at
Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society and a senior policy advisor
at Cornell University Library.

Future efforts will involve removing restrictions for other materials
believed to be in the public domain and making them available through the
Ransom Center’s digital collections portal <http://hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/>.
<http://hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/>

“Removing barriers to the use of the Ransom Center’s collections is one way
we can extend the useful life of our collections,” said Ransom Center
Director Steve Enniss. “We hold these collections in trust for students,
researchers and the public everywhere.”

The project is intended to facilitate and encourage creative re-use of
these materials.

“I am pleased to be at the Center during this time of transformative
change,” said Liz Gushee, head of digital collections services. “Having the
images of Project REVEAL freely available is a significant step toward
enhancing the online experience of the Center’s patrons who seek to explore
and use its wealth of collection materials.”

Additional information and frequently asked questions about the Ransom
Center’s policy on access to digital reproductions of works in the public
domain <http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/openaccess/> is available.

*For more information, contact:* Jennifer Tisdale <jentisdale at utexas.edu>,
Harry Ransom Center, 512-471-8949.

*Note to editors and news producers:*

University Communications at The University of Texas at Austin is providing
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article is posted in the “Press Releases” section of the UT News website at
http://news.utexas.edu/.

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Lieke Ploeger

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<https://twitter.com/liekeploeger>

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